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Shanghai Women's Prison

Shanghai Women's Prison
Simplified Chinese上海市女子监狱
Traditional Chinese上海市女子監獄
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinShànghǎishì Nǚzǐ Jiānyù

Shanghai Women's Prison (Chinese: 上海市女子监狱), also called Songjiang Women's Prison, is a women's prison in Songjiang District, Shanghai, China.[1] It is a part of the Shanghai Prison Administrative Bureau.

It has over 1,000 prisoners and is the only such correctional facility for women in the direct-controlled municipality. Its prisoners had committed murder, embezzlement, theft, fraud, assault, drug offenses, and other crimes.[2]

The prison has a mother and daughter program for young women who are incarcerated. This program began in 2014.[3]

A fire occurred in 2013.[4]

References

  1. ^ Zhao, Wen. "Women behind bars meet their mothers" (Archive). Shanghai Daily. Saturday March 8, 2014. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.
  2. ^ "Prison screens movies as tools for change" (Archive). City of Shanghai. May 10, 2014. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.
  3. ^ Yang, Meiping. "Women’s prison invites mothers to see their daughters" (Archive). Shanghai Daily. May 21, 2015. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.
  4. ^ Griffiths, James. "Massive fire forces evacuation of Shanghai Women's Prison " (Archive). That's Shanghai. December 3, 2013. Retrieved on December 21, 2015.


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